‘I have had to ask the US to save me’: British dual national stuck in coronavirus-hit Wuhan will be airlifted to safety by America today after UK government abandons him in ‘ghost town’ – as Japan, South Korea and France also announce rescue plans Ex-pat Ian Thompson being rescued by US because British government has […]
How onions and old cheese could help inflammatory bowel disease: Scientists find diets rich in pre and probiotics ease gut cramps – but milk, pasta and rice will make them worse Researchers tested diet on 19 patients to see if would improve their gut health They found nearly two in three (61.3 per cent) reported […]
Young girls who are about to undergo treatment for cancer or other therapies that pose high risk of infertility can opt to have an ovary removed and preserved for future transplantation when they are ready to pursue pregnancy. However, the tiny ovary can be easily damaged during surgery and the quality of ovarian tissue for […]
A group of researchers led by Assistant Professor WATABE Tadashi of the Graduate School of Medicine of Osaka University achieved the stable domestic production of automatic synthesis modules for positron emission tomography (PET) probe F-18 NKO-035, a LAT1-selective amino acid derivative radiolabeled with 18F (Table 1), confirming its safety in first-in-human clinical studies conducted at […]
Cancer patients have had to wait longer for innovative new cancer drugs than for more conventional treatments, suggesting the most exciting new therapies have not been successfully fast tracked, a new analysis reports. The researchers found that the higher the level of innovation of a cancer drug, the longer it was taking to pass through […]
(HealthDay)—In an American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists updated guideline, published online Jan. 13 in the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Oncology, recommendations are presented for estrogen and progesterone receptor (ER/PgR) testing in breast cancer. Kimberly H. Allison, M.D., from the Stanford University School of Medicine in […]
Published online today in the scientific journal Addiction, a 10-year study led by researchers at UCL of 41,610 smokers in England has found that smokers today show fewer signs of dependence than a decade ago but are less inclined to try to stop smoking. Thus, smokers consume fewer cigarettes per day (an average of 10.9 […]
British children’s lunches are just as unhealthy as they were a decade ago with fewer than 2% getting a balanced pack-up from their parents Analysis shows 1.6% of eight and nine-year-olds have balanced packed lunches Amount of sugar in lunch boxes has fallen, but so too has vitamins and minerals Despite school dinner reforms in […]
The Chinese government has quarantined Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people, and it has restricted travel to and from several other cities, including Beijing, to contain the coronavirus that has sickened more than 800 people and killed at least 25 as of Jan. 23, 2020. A case has been reported in Seattle, and […]
A new study shows drinking low-fat milk—both nonfat and 1% milk—is significantly associated with less aging in adults. Research on 5,834 U.S. adults by Brigham Young University exercise science professor Larry Tucker, Ph.D., found people who drink low-fat milk experience several years less biological aging than those who drink high-fat (2% and whole) milk. “It […]
